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Malaysia has selected South Korea’s K-SAAM for the Royal Malaysian Navy’s LMS Batch 2 corvettes, adding a new shipborne air-defence layer to vessels already under construction in Türkiye.

UK work with Norway on Type 26 build slots is reinforcing long-run workload visibility on the Clyde while extending the programme’s export-industrial footprint.

Hanwha Ocean’s agreement with Gibbs & Cox links Korean yard capacity with US naval design experience, with production speed and sustainment built into the programme approach.

Italy’s U212 Near Future Submarine programme is moving deeper into serial production. The build now centres on throughput, supplier performance, and systems integration.

Anduril and HD Hyundai have moved their autonomous surface vessel programme into production. The work now turns on integration, modularity, and repeatable build standards.

Britain is still assessing how Aster could fit with Mk41 launchers. The work points to a more standardised future weapons architecture across Royal Navy combatants.

Kongsberg is using Sea-Air-Space 2026 to sharpen its maritime-systems pitch, pairing missile, sonar, radar, and autonomous-underwater products with a more explicit US manufacturing story around Joint Strike Missile production in Virginia.

The launch of Émile Bertin marks another step in France’s naval logistics recapitalisation, extending a Franco-Italian production model that spreads hull work, systems integration, and programme management across multiple industrial partners.

Babcock has secured a two-year extension to its Royal Navy surface-ship support work, preserving engineering activity across Devonport and Rosyth as the UK continues to rely on dockyard capacity and through-life fleet sustainment.

TKMS and Navantia are shifting naval cooperation toward capacity sharing. The agreement points to a European shipbuilding market constrained by yards, skills, and delivery pressure.